World Day against Trafficking in Persons
July 30th is UN World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Learn more about human trafficking, as well as how to combat it.
STOP THE TRAFFIK
http://www.stopthetraffik.org/uk/Volunteer Opportunities: Yes
History
Since 2006 we have been building a global movement. Initially, STOP THE TRAFFIK was set up as a two year campaign to host "Freedom Day" to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slavery. On March 25, 2007, thousands of people of all ages brought awareness to the streets of their communities all around the world. The first STOP THE TRAFFIK initiative was to take a declaration of one million signatures to the UN and present it during their Human Trafficking Conference. After overwhelming activist support from around the world, 1.5 million individuals signed the declaration which was delivered to the UN in February 2008. STOP THE TRAFFIK became an independent charity, and it's founder Steve Chalke became a United Nations Special Advisor on Community Action Against Trafficking.
Mission
To build resilient communities and prevent human trafficking
- Contact Information:
- First Floor Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, Westminster
- London,
- United Kingdom
- Active In: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Forced Labor, Sex Trafficking, Child Labor
- Tel: +44 (0) 207 921-4258
- Email: info@stopthetraffik.org
- Additional Locations:
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- P.O. Box 1703, Castle Hill
- , New South Wales
- Australia
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- Minahassastraat 1
- Amsterdam,
- Netherlands
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Lisa Kristine illuminates the stories of those she photographed and documents widespread instances of enslavement throughout the world today.
In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.